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Once in, Hoover found the path strewn with difficulty. An inordinate shyness, accentuated by his deafness, was mistaken for gruffness, an engineer's anxiety to be letter-perfect, for indecision. Twice while Dulles was absent, Hoover as Acting Secretary had to take responsibility for poor staff work that produced diplomatic boomerangs: 1) the U.S. snub in April 1955 of Communist China's offer to negotiate disagreements that were leading the two nations toward war; 2) the on-again, off-again shipment of 18 U.S. tanks to Saudi Arabia last winter in the midst of Israel's strongest...
...piled in the hall, the baggage of the same Franklin D. Roosevelt who had nominated him for the presidency and dubbed him "the happy warrior." Prohibition was the law of the land, but Al called for a bottle of champagne, anointed F.D.R.'s trunks and intoned to his absent friend: "Now, Frank, if you want a drink, you will know where to find...
...thrives on opposition. "When I'm angry, I carr do no wrong," she says. "I sing and act like someone possessed." But Tebaldi wilts. "She's got no backbone. She's not like Callas." Year by year Tebaldi reduced her appearances, until last year she was absent entirely from La Scala, and Callas held the field with 37 performances...
Social Sciences 1, which last year held fourth place, is absent from this year's list of the top ten. This sudden fall may be explained partially by the course's loss of the popular Charles H. Taylor, professor of History, as fall term lecturer...
...Gone?," the Old (52) Groaner groaned: "I'm 'long gone.' I just don't sing as well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that it's almost opaque over a quite unbelievable term of years-30 of them actually...